This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian … these characteristics differentially impact on the risk of poverty in each group. A detailed decomposition of both effects … explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining …

In the context of South Africa's pervasive poverty and mass unemployment, households provide an important private …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would …

-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals’ wage formation in France. Our …

by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the … endogenous participation decision predicts the revenue ordering that we see in the field. …

levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact … of attaining an academic qualification on participation and employment is always statistically significant, in particular …